MAIR, John bookseller Aberdeen
Broadgate 1723
There is to be sold by auction a collection belonging to Mr John
Mair. Edinburgh Evening Courant 21 March 1723.NLS Impr Ind

MAIR, Patrick printer and bookseller Glasgow and
Falkirk
Second Close above Bell's Wynd, Glasgow 1764
Falkirk 1767-82
High Street opposite the Cross Well 1783-97
Patrick Mair, born in 1738, started as a bookseller in Glasgow,
where he appears in the imprint of Thomas Boston's Sermons
in 1764. By 1767 he was settled in Falkirk as a bookseller. In 1783
he took over Daniel Reid's printing business, and printed religious
works, particularly those of the Scottish Seceders as well as a
number of chapbooks. He retired in 1797, and was succeeded in the
business by his son-in-law Thomas Johnston.Chapbook Printers; The Falkirk Herald. Eighty years 1845-1925.
Falkirk. 1925; NLS Impr Ind

MANES, Denis paper maker Braidburn and Yester
Nicolas Dupin and Denis Manes Scots White Writing Paper Company
Yester Mill, East Lothian 1694-1703
Braid Mill near Edinburgh 1695-1703
Nicolas Dupin and Denis Manes floated a joint stock company in
1694 with a capital of £5,000, The Society of the White-Writing and
Printing Paper Manufactory of Scotland. The Committee members
included George Mossman stationer. They had a warehouse at Heriot's
Bridge in the Grassmarket. They asked for a monopoly of
paper-making in Scotland in 1694, but this was refused on the
grounds that there were already other paper mills. They ran into
financial trouble perhaps exacerbated by the conduct of their
Clerk, Robert Henderson who was imprisoned in the Tolbooth at
Edinburgh 'for alledged imbazelling the effects belonging to the
said manufactory'. He was released in May 1703 because the tacksmen
brought no charge against him. The Company made a tack of the two
paper-mills 17 September 1703 to George Kerr, merchant and George
Livingstoune wright both of Edinburgh on condition that they
retained the existing apprentices and workmen. Both mills were
still working as papermills in 1714, and Yester was offered for let
in working order in 1774. Waterston mentions a papermark COMPANY
surmounted by a crowned thistle in two bonds of 1697, and
illustrates photographs of a mark BRED / DUPIN in a deed of 1700,
and BRAID in an ornamental cartouche in a deed of 17 March 1703 and
YESTER in a similar cartouche in a deed of 20 June 1705.Waterston 1; Thomson

MANSON, William newspaper printer and publisher
Thurso
Caithness Chronicle and Northern Advertiser Durness Street
April-December 1847
The first issue was that of 2 April 1847. It was printed and
published by William Manson for the proprietor David Cowan.Cowan; John Mowat 'Books and Printing in Caithness' Records of
the Glasgow Bibliographical Society vi 84-94 (1920)

MARGEY, Hugh stationer and bookseller Glasgowstationer 28 East Clyde Street 1835bookseller same address 1837-49
The National Library of Scotland has a 16p catalogue Wholesale and
retail Catholic Book Warehouse. Catalogue of books published and
sold by Hugh Margey & Co. 28 Clyde Street, Glasgow.
[n.d.]Glas Dir; Pigot 1837

MARSHALL, John bookseller and printer Alloa
John Marshall bookseller Alloa before 1836
bookseller and printer Alloa 1836-
Died in 1844. Succeeded by Alexander Wingate. There is an entry
for James Marshall Alloa 1837 above.John Lothian. Alloa and its environs. 3rd ed. 1871

MARSHALL, John bookbinder Glasgow
Glasgow 1758-69
High Street 1783
John Marshall, son of Allan Marshall, apprenticed to William
Marshall bookseller Glasgow 1745. Burgess and Guild Brother as
serving apprentice with William Marshall bookbinder and bookseller
27 November 1763. Apprentices: James Brown apprenticed to John
Marshall bookbinder Glasgow 1758; James Brown bookseller Burgess
and Guild Brother as serving apprentice with John Marshall
bookbinder. 31 July 1769; Robert Farrie apprenticed to John
Marshall bookbinder Glasgow 1761.Maxted; GlasBurg; Glas Dir

MARSCHALL [MARSCHAL; MARSHALL], William merchant and
bookseller Home
Home 1740-43
Sold copies of works by Erskine & Whitfield.NLS Impr Ind

MARTIN [Gilbert] and MACDOWALL printer Edinburgh
M'Dowall and Martin, Back Stairs 1786
Martin and MacDowall, Back Stairs, Parliament Square 1788-90
'Early on Sunday morning, April 18 [1790], a fire broke out in the
printing-house of Messrs Martin and Macdowall, Back Stairs,
Parliament Square, which entirely consumed the same, together with
a valuable stock of books and utensils. The tenement consisted of
seven storeys, whereof the three uppermost, with the garret, were
destroyed'Chambers. Fires

MARTIN, Andrew bookseller Edinburgh
Parliament Closs 1727-40
Burgess and Guild Brother by right of father John Martin, of
Littlearries 12 May 1731;
Keeper of the Theological Library in the University of
Edinburgh.EdinBurg; NLS Impr Ind

MARTIN, Archibald bookseller and printer
Edinburgh
Opposite the foot of Forrester's Wynd Cowgate 1759-62
Middle of the Old Assembly's Close 1765
Printing House in the Horse Wynd 1767
Printed an edition of Archibald Deans. An account of the last
words of Christian Ker in 1759; and printed and sold an
edition of The cruel Knight or the Fisherman's garland in
1765, and a number of small religious pamphlets.Chapbook Printers; NLS Impr Ind

MARTIN, Gilbert printer Edinburgh
Gilbert Martin & John Wotherspoon Advocate's Close
Luckenbooths 1761-75
Gilbert Martin & Sons Pleasance 1776-84
Windmill Street [house?] 1780
Apollo Press, Pleasance 1782
John Martin, same address 1784
Fishmarket Close 1786
M'Dowall and Martin, Back Stairs 1786
Martin and MacDowall, Back Stairs, Parliament Square 1788-90
Gilbert Martin married Margaret daughter of deceast John Nicolson
wright in Moultreeshill 28 June 1761. Martin & Wotherspoon were
sued in 1773 by Thomas Becket of London for printing a Scottish
edition of Sterne's Works. Gilbert Martin died 29 February
1784 Edinburgh Evening Courant. Will proved 26 July 1786.
'Gilbert Martin, of the Apollo Press, Edinburgh died March 1, 1784
[?] ... his peculiarities pressed chiefly on his near relatives and
friends; conscientious, but obstinate; very liable to err, though
he seldom thought he acted wrong ... By dint of application, he had
improved an excellent understanding, and acquired a taste and
science in his profession which few predecessors had displayed;
disdaining to be fettered by the common rules of art, he ranged
into a wide field of luxuriant fancy, and combined in types such
symmetry and elegance as might vie with the powers of the painter's
pencil' Timperley 750. 'Fire about forty years ago,
completely laid waste the celebrated Apollo Press, (by which Bell's
beautiful edition of the British Poets was printed,) besides
scorching to death several horses in the stables underneath.'
Chambers. Fires; Caledonian Mercury 26 August 1761; 28 April
1764. Apollo Press destroyed by fire 18 April 1790. 'Early on
Sunday morning, April 18 [1790], a fire broke out in the
printing-house of Messrs Martin and Macdowall, Back Stairs,
Parliament Square, which entirely consumed the same, together with
a valuable stock of books and utensils. The tenement consisted of
seven storeys, whereof the three uppermost, with the garret, were
destroyed'. Apprentice: Robert Auchinleck 28 September 1770.Edin Dir; EdinMarr; EdinPren; NLS Impr Ind; EdinTest;
Chambers. Fires; McDougall. Smugglers

MARTIN, William secondhand bookseller and auctioneer
Edinburgh
West Bow & Opposite to James's Court Lawnmarket 1774-89
Auction Room Old Bank Close Lawnmarket & shop at Bowhead
1789
Sale Room 46 South Bridge West side 1793-1800
house East end of Bruntsfield Links 1800-03
1 Lothian St 1805-11
1 Meadow Place 1812
9 Meadow Place 1813-16
7 West Nicolson Street 1817-18
Nicknamed 'Bibles'. Supposed to have been born at or near Airdrie,
about the year 1745, and was originally a shoemaker. 'bred a
shoemaker; his father had been a volunteer on the King's side at
the battle of Falkirk, and was carried there by his mother, which
gave occasion to the joke that he was 'in arms' in the '45. He
began retailing books on a stall at the head of the West Bow about
1776. He had afterwards for many years a large apartment in the
house which had belonged to President Lockhart, in the Old Bank
Close in the Lawnmarket, where he carried on the business of
auctioneer of prints and books... I possess a sketch of him by
Geddes;he was twice married, and died in 1821.'. Attended fairs and
markets round Edinburgh selling books. Burgess and Guild Brother 26
October 1786. Member of the Edinburgh Bookseller's Society 11 March
31 March 1787. He married, as his second wife, December 1788
Katherine daughter of Mr Robertson, schoolmaster in Ayr. He was a
member of the Cape Club 'Knight of Roger', of the Society of
Booksellers, and the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. Died in
February 1820.Edin Dir; NLS Impr Ind; Kay;Constable i
539-40; Sher. Edinburgh Booksellers

MARTIN, William printseller, carver and gilder
Glasgow
88 West George Strret 1849Glas Dir

MASON, John bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1671-72
John Masoun stationer Burgess by right of father John Masoun
merchant 6 December 1671; Two prayers to be taught unto
children. Edinburgh 1672 has the imprint Printed for John
Mason.Aldis 1904; EdinBurg

MASON, John bookseller Falkirk
High Street 1852Slater 1852

MASON, Robert engraver Edinburgh
13 Union Street 1831-45Edin Dir

MASSON, Alexander printer Aberdeen
29 Frederick Street 1844Beavan

MASTERTON, Gilbert bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1587
Laing's copy of CL Psalms. London: Vautrollier, 1587, had
at the foot of the titlepage in manuscript imitation of roman type
'To be sauld at Gilbert Mastertonis in Edinburgh; on 15 April 1587
he acquired from Mr George Young, Archdeacon of St Andrews, the
printing privilege which the latter had received in 1585; and
Masterton in turn transferred this gift to John Gibson.
(Lee 48; Appendix xv; DE.384,481). Will registered 6
February 1600.Aldis 1904; EdinTest

MATHER, John printer and bookseller Edinburgh
30 Forrest Land Goose Dibs 1799?
Married Henrieta Russell in Canongate Kirk 1 October 1778. Printed
and sold his own The unmasking of the masked part of mankind
& the takeing the bandage from the eyes of Bellum and the
blind. 1799? The printing and the spelling show this to have
been an amateur effort. The book is a political rhapsody.CanonMarr; NLS Impr Ind

MATTHEWSON [MATHIESON, MATHISON], John typefounder
Edinburgh
John Mathieson, Shoemakers Close, Canongate 1790-93
Hamilton's Folly Close, East end of Crosscauseway 1794-1804
D. Mathison, New Grange 1805-08
John Mathison [15] New Grange 1809-13
19 St Leonards 1814
87 St Leonards 1815
15 St Leonard's Street 1816-18
John Matthewson same address 1819-20
Clerk Street 1821
James Matthewson, 20 St Leonard's Hill 1822-25
John Matthewson 14 St Leonard's Hill 1826
31 St Leonard's Hill 1827
[41] Clerk Street [house] 1821-28
John Matthewson, late letterfounder 22 Duke Street
1829-31
There is a Specimen of printing types, cut and cast by John
Matthewson, letter-founder, Edinburgh in Columbia University
Library. The house number for New Grange appears in the 1812
Edin Dir only, and that for Clerk Street in 1822. 'He had,
he said, been originally a shepherd boy. ... One day, while
attending his master's sheep, he was accidentally observed by the
minister of the parish to be carving some words on a block of wood
with a pocket-knife. The clergyman ... interested himself in his
fate, and sent him to Edinburgh to pursue the profession of a
printer. Shortly afterwards, he began to make himself useful by
cutting dies for letters of a particular description required by
his employer; there being then no typefounder in the city.... He
set up the business of letter-founding in Edinburgh, which he had
all to himself until the commencement of establishments with higher
claims to taste in execution.'Edin Dir; W. Chambers. Memoir of Robert Chambers. Chapter 6;
Talbot Baines Reed. A history of the old English letter foundries.
New ed. London, 1952, 342-3; Duncan Glen. Printing Type
Designs: a new History from Gutenberg to 2000. Kirkcaldy,
2001.

MATTHIE [MATHY], Peter [Patrick] printer
Edinburgh
Swan Closs a little below the Cross Well North side of the Street
1733-34
Opposite the Tolbooth North side of the Street 1738
Edinburgh 1739-43
Son to deceased William Mathie, in Myreside, apprenticed to John
Moncur printer 17 January 1722 [Maxted 29 November 1721].
Burgess & Guild Brother 2 August 1732 as Patrick.Edin Pren; Maxted; EdinBurg; NLS Impr Ind

MATHIE, William apprentice printer Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1602-24
Apprenticed with Mr Robert Charteris printer 12 October 1602. A
William Mathie married Issobell Smythe in Edinburgh 12 June 1610
recorded in the register of Holyroodhouse; and another perhaps the
same married Jonat Richardson in the Kirk of Holyroodhouse 1 June
1624.EdinPren; CanonMarr

MATHISON [MATHIESON; MATTHEWSON], John typefounder
Edinburgh
John Mathieson, Shoemakers Close, Canongate 1790-93
Hamilton's Folly Close, East end of Crosscauseway 1794-1804
D. Mathison, New Grange 1805-08
John Mathison [15] New Grange 1809-13
19 St Leonards 1814-15
15 St Leonard's Street 1816-18
John Matthewson same address 1819-20
Clerk Street 1821
James Matthewson, 20 St Leonard's Hill 1822-25
John Matthewson 14 St Leonard's Hill 1826
31 St Leonard's Hill 1827
[41] Clerk Street [house?] 1821-28
John Matthewson, late letterfounder 22 Duke Street
1829-31
There is a 'Specimen of printing types, cut and cast by John
Matthewson, letter-founder, Edinburgh' in Columbia University
Library. The house number for New Grange appears in the 1812
Directory only, and that for Clerk Street in 1822. 'He had, he
said, been originally a shepherd boy. ... One day, while attending
his master's sheep, he was accidentally observed by the minister of
the parish to be carving some words on a block of wood with a
pocket-knife. The clergyman ... interested himself in his fate, and
sent him to Edinburgh to pursue the profession of a printer.
Shortly afterwards, he began to make himself useful by cutting dies
for letters of a particular description required by his employer;
there being then no typefounder in the city. ... He set up the
business of letter-founding in Edinburgh, which he had all to
himself until the commencement of establishments with higher claims
to taste in execution.'Edin Dir; William Chambers. Memoir of William and
Robert Chambers. 12th ed. Edinburgh and London, 1883,
pp.168-169; Talbot Baines Reed. A history of the old English
letter foundries. New ed. London, 1952, 342-3.

MAYNE [MAIN], James printer Paisley
1 New-street 1819-20Pigot calls him Main, but he always spells his name
Mayne. The one work printed by him in 1820 was finished by John
Neilson.Crawford; Pigot 1820

MAYNE, Jonet bookseller Edinburgh
Edinburgh 1631-39
Widow of James Cathkin, whose business she continued. She died 30
April 1639. Inventory (Bann.Misc.ii,253) which enumerates among the
debts one 'to John Threipland, servand to the defunct'.Aldis 1904